Focus on discrimination a petty and divisive tactic

Terrie Thomason

Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2005

I'm sick and tired of listening to all the bleeding-heart liberals looking for sympathy and a handout. I'm a "double minority" and have never asked for preferential treatment. I've earned my position through hard work and perseverance.

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Most of all, I'm sick of African Americans screaming discrimination and equal rights. Listen, people, the more you pick at a wound, the longer it takes for it to heal. Slavery died more than 150 years ago. Get over it and get a life. I have. No one owes you anything except a fair chance that's based solely on your own merits, not your color or gender. If you want something, work for it and earn it. Stop beating the drum of civil rights and start beating the drum for American rights. After all, isn't this who we all are?

Support our country, all of the Americans that make us the greatest country on the face of the Earth, and quit the bickering and divisiveness. We are supposed to be "one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." All of this petty racial rhetoric only serves to divide us against each other. Unite as Americans and stand strong together or continue to live in the past and feel sorry for yourself. I surely won't feel sorry for you.